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			<h1>I almost sold my domain name for a drawing of a duck today.</h1>
			<p>Day 00002: Monday, 2015 March 09</p>
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	I spent the day doing research attempting to figure out how to get my mail server configured and running properly.
	I had no luck.
	Something had been eating at my mind for a while though: <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s are known to block traffic coming from their customers on the mail port as a lazy way of blocking spam.
	I decided to check to see if my <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr> is one of them.
	<a href="https://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/email-port-25-no-longer-supported/">It seems that they are indeed blocking traffic on port 25</a>, <a href="https://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/list-of-blocked-ports/">both incoming and outgoing</a>.
	This has had nothing to do with why I can&apos;t figure out how to get the mail server configured, as the thing still doesn&apos;t even work on the local network, but it does mean that I should give up trying.
	Even if I get the server figured out, it will all be for nothing.
	I will instead set up an account with someone else to get email service running on one of their servers.
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	(For the record, I&apos;m no fan of Comcast.
	Comcast is a freedom-hating, evil corperation that wants to destroy net neutrality.
	However, I&apos;m not the one paying the household Internet connection bill, so I don&apos;t get a say in our choice of <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr>s.)
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	I decided to choose Zoho to provide my email service for the time being.
	I&apos;m not enthusiastic about their terms of service, but they are tolerable for now.
	Setting up email access through them will get me up and running, and if I need to switch providers later, I can do so.
	It&apos;s worth noting though that the registration form and the terms of service seem to maybe be at odds with one another.
	The terms of service say <a href="https://www.zoho.com/terms.html"><q>You agree to: a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the sign up process;</q></a>, while the registration form says (in reference to both the first name field and the last name field) <a href="https://mail.zoho.com/biz/mailsignup.do?plan=free"><q>This must be between 2 to 30 characters and can contain letters, numbers, underscores, dot(.)</q></a>.
	If Zoho was asking for a legal first and last name, they would not be allowing underscores or digits.
	It is also highly likely that they would disallow dots.
	I can thus only assume that the first and last name are required to be accurate, but not necessarily a person&apos;s legal names.
	I used my legal name anyway due to it being already publicly-available in the whois records.
	However, the form presented the following error message: <q>We are unable to process your request now.
	Please try again after sometime or contact support@zohoaccounts.com</q>.
	I will try again tomorrow.
	If that does not work, I might try contacting support or I might try finding another email provider, though the latter will be quite difficult unless I can scrape together the funds to set up a paid account.
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	An explanation for today&apos;s weblog entry&apos;s title can be found in the log of <a href="ircs://irc.volitile.club:6697/%23Volatile">#Volatile</a>.
	A summery lies below:
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	[18:21:06] &lt;Japex&gt; Yst: I&apos;ll buy y.st for $1<br/>
	[18:21:13] &lt;mistedwind&gt; 2$<br/>
	[18:21:40] &lt;mistedwind&gt; okay<br/>
	[18:21:53] &lt;mistedwind&gt; how about $5 and a drawing of a duck? final offer.<br/>
	[18:22:29] &lt;Yst&gt; Japex: I don&apos;t know how much it added up to after currency translation and translation fees, but it was more than that. Besides, I spent nearly a month finding an available short name. I&apos;m not giving it up easily.<br/>
	[18:22:53] &lt;mistedwind&gt; Yst: the duck though<br/>
	[18:23:33] &lt;Yst&gt; mistedwind: The duck is tempting, but I think I&apos;ll have to pass. I&apos;ve wanted a short name since I before I registered my first name.<br/>
	[18:25:22] &lt;mistedwind&gt; &gt;Yst&apos;s weblog entry 3-9-15 I almost sold my domain name for a drawing of a duck today.<br/>
	[18:25:47] &lt;Yst&gt; mistedwind: Mind if I post that?<br/>
	[18:25:52] &lt;Yst&gt; With your name?<br/>
	[18:25:56] &lt;mistedwind&gt; go ahead<br/>
	[18:26:02] &lt;Yst&gt; Sweet.<br/>
	[18:26:06] &lt;Japex&gt; Why would mistedwind mind?<br/>
	[18:26:22] &lt;mistedwind&gt; Japex: Yst is being polite, you should follow suit.<br/>
	[18:26:46] &lt;Yst&gt; It&apos;s not likely mistedwind would mind, but I do have to ask just in case. I don&apos;t want to piss people off without good reason.<br/>
	[18:28:29] &lt;Yst&gt; Japex: Can I take that as a statement that you won&apos;t mind if I repost what you said as well?<br/>
	[18:28:40] &lt;Japex&gt; Nah, I don&apos;t mind.<br/>
	[18:28:51] &lt;Japex&gt; If I&apos;m saying something in a public channel. I couldn&apos;t really care less.
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